COMPOSTING:
Don’t waste your waste. It’s good for you.
Have you ever stopped to thing about what dirt is made of? Dirt is dead stuff and all the little creatures that eat it. I read somewhere that there are more varieties of life in a handful of dirt than all the species in the Amazon combined. Soil covers the earth in many places and is only about a foot deep. About half of it is ground up rock and minerals and the other half is air, water, and decomposer creatures who are eating dead plants and animals. It’s a giant recycling facility. So the question is why throw something in an enormous garbage heap when you can recycle it into new life giving humus. Composting for your plants helps them grow healthy, vibrant and vitamin rich and it helps restores the world’s diminishing top soil. It also restores 99.6 percent of industrial volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) in contaminated air.
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1) Keep your scraps in a freezer bag in the freezer. Then take them out when full and dump in the pile.
2) Put scraps in a container you keep by the sink and dump every other day.
HOW TO COMPOST RECIPE (abridged version)
1) 2 parts DRY: leaves, dry grass clippings ( I spread them in the drive way for a couple of days to dry in sun) , sawdust, straw, wood chips, nut shells.
2) 1 part WET: fruit and vegetable scraps, tea, coffee, green grass clippings.
3) Keep it in container of choice .
4) Keep it aerated by turning or sturing regularly. This will prevent stink. A well balanced compost does not smell bad.
5) Keep it moist by adding water when it gets dry.
6) Keep adding to it or start another pile. Your pile is done and usable when you don’t see food pieces and it looks like dark rich soil.
